[Fsuk-manchester] Fwd: thanks for the weekend!

[Lucy]

I thought people would be interested to hear how the Arcspace
Futuresonic fringe event went.

Manchester Free Software were around from 12-4pm to provide
information and advice to people who about free software. We also
helped supervise the cluster computers, which provided people with
free Internet access (and not so free flash games :/).

Both myself and Leslie spoke to a number of people who were interested
in either using free software for the first time or who wanted to
learn how to make better use of it. I was surprised by the number and
variety of people who were actually already using free software, but
who weren't involved in or aware of groups in the area that could help
them. Overall, it was a very good day.

There's an email from the organiser Vicky Sinclair with some further
information below. In particular, there's some ideas for how we could
move forward. I would very much be interested in ideas or suggestions
from people and especially interested in hearing from people who would
be interested in helping out.

Thanks!

Lucy

p.s. Due to me putting some stickers on an easy to reach table there
may now be a large number of children in Hulme with the words
'GNU/Linux Inside' and 'Warning: Contains DRM' on them..


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: victoria sinclair <address@hidden>
Date: 2009/5/19
Subject: thanks for the weekend!

Hi all

just a quick email to thank you for your time and input over the weekend.

We've had a number of really positive emails and verbal appraisals - -
so the hard work was worth it and it seems we got a nice window in the
weather....It was great to see many different ages and cultural groups
out and about, and your work really mattered.

Please feel free to send us your own comments as these are important
to us.  Official practitioners will be getting an evaluation sheet
shortly.

What else?  well shortly we begin a new phase of community workshops
for adult learners - cv writing, IT, computer recycling, story telling
and much more. We are also looking at some multi-agency heritage
awareness work (longer term project), some summer schools and an
online dance off in partnership with the universities, and a longer
term internatonal project looking at water as an informal learning
adventure....

Something else to note is that we will soon begin testing of TGL.TV
(which goes live approx 2nd week of June) and this will hopefully be
an invaluable mapping tool for our many different enterprises and
needs in the local community.  It is a community based search engine,
tv station and internet service provider to help unite ethical
enterprises.

If you would like to be kept up to date on developments and future
workshop/event possibilities please email us at
address@hidden

Furthermore the hub is there to be used and please tell people about
the free internet access, drop in sessions and skill-sharing workshops
we offer.

If you want to come down to use the resources please contact
address@hidden or phone 07872939216.   We are there most
afternoons and some evenings, and you are more than welcome!

Other than that - thanks again -- it was a pleasing weekend, and it
was great to see such positive teamwork in the lead up to and delivery
of the activities.

Best wishes

vicky sinclair on behalf of arcspace manchester
ps - Janey please can you forward this to the stewards

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Victoria Sinclair (Project Manager Generate Project)